Two-stage management for vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abscess: Technical note

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Nakase, Hiroyuki ^a   Matsuda, Ryosuke ^a   Tamaki, Ryo ^a   Tei, Rinsei ^a   Park, Young Su ^a   Sakaki, Toshisuke ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infection; Instrumentation; Osteomyelitis; Spine surgery; Staged surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STEROID THERAPY;

AGED; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745101328     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000215996.62828.76     Document Type: Article

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